.mold
Is .mold a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .mold, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A narrow industrial keyword with an unpleasant double meaning; few businesses would make .mold their main address.
mold-making and injection-molding manufacturers, tooling and die suppliers, and possibly mold-remediation service firms looking for a keyword address
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The shape that gives a product its form.”
The 2012 applications making the most similar bet. Chosen by AI from every string in that round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a plain-English trade noun sold as an open portfolio TLD whose primary identity holders are local small-business contractors in one home-services specialty, monetized by thin per-name volume plus geo-prefix registrations rather than by any single anchor brand.
Same bet in shape - a remediation/service-work noun aimed at franchise and independent service operators who market on the problem they remove - but it is a broader, higher-frequency word courting a wider and less specialist registrant pool.
Same bet of selling a fix-it service category to the trades that perform it, with search-intent match as the entire value proposition, but it is a horizontal verb-noun spanning every industry rather than one narrow affliction that defines its own remediation niche.
What a .mold domain is
.mold is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody is chasing .mold today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .mold domain extension real yet?
.mold is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .mold domain?
You can’t yet. A .mold name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .mold was .plumbing, delegated on 14 November 2013.
Is .mold a real TLD?
Not yet. .mold is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .mold and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.mold · Trade & Logistics · “The shape that gives a product its form.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Mold-making and injection molding are a genuine global B2B industry, heavily concentrated in Chinese manufacturing hubs, so there is a plausible buyer group; but by analogy with other industrial-keyword gTLDs (.parts-style, .supplies, .industries), such strings have tended to see thin registration bases and rarely become primary identities — industrial suppliers overwhelmingly stay on .com or ccTLDs. The English string also carries a strong negative second meaning (fungal mold), which weakens brand signal for the very manufacturers it targets, though it could attract a small remediation-services niche; that split meaning is itself a drag on any coherent aftermarket. The applicant is one entry in a large 323-string portfolio (verified), which by analogy with prior portfolio applicants suggests generic registry marketing rather than deep vertical channel investment. Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow) — above 1-9 because a real industry exists and some keyword and defensive registrations are plausible over 5 years; below 30-49 because neither volume nor price-driven registration at scale is likely and the brand signal is ambiguous-to-negative. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese tooling manufacturers, the natural core buyers, would adopt an English-word TLD for export-facing identities at any meaningful rate.